{"id":7227,"date":"2023-06-30T19:43:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T02:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=7227"},"modified":"2023-06-30T19:43:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T02:43:52","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-409","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2023\/06\/30\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-409","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 409"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/a> On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is vol\u00adume 409, a prime num\u00adber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Reli\u00adgion Has Become a Lux\u00adu\u00adry Good<\/a> (Ryan Burge, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cMore edu\u00adcat\u00aded peo\u00adple are more like\u00adly to claim a reli\u00adgious affil\u00adi\u00ada\u00adtion on sur\u00adveys. It\u2019s true in every sin\u00adgle wave of the Coop\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtive Elec\u00adtion Study. It\u2019s also the case in the Nation\u00adscape sur\u00advey, which is 477K respon\u00addents. They even have 4,000 peo\u00adple with doc\u00adtor\u00adal degrees in their sam\u00adple. The most like\u00adly to be non-reli\u00adgious? Those who didn\u2019t fin\u00adish high school. As edu\u00adca\u00adtion increas\u00ades, so does reli\u00adgious affil\u00adi\u00ada\u00adtion. The group with the high\u00adest lev\u00adel of reli\u00adgious affil\u00adi\u00ada\u00adtion are those with a master\u2019s degree.\u201d<\/strong> Empha\u00adsis in orig\u00adi\u00adnal.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. When the Ser\u00admon Fiz\u00adzles Instead of Siz\u00adzles<\/a> (Tim Chal\u00adlies, per\u00adson\u00adal blog): \u201cBut who\u2019s to say that, in the mind of God, the pow\u00ader of the preach\u00ading is entire\u00adly in the hands of the preach\u00ader? Who\u2019s to say that the pastor\u2019s task is to pre\u00adpare the ser\u00admon while the congregation\u2019s task is mere\u00adly to pre\u00adpare their own hearts to hear it? What if preach\u00ading is pow\u00ader\u00adless not because of the pastor\u2019s lack of prepa\u00adra\u00adtion but because of the church\u2019s lack of prayer? What if poor preach\u00ading is not the con\u00adse\u00adquence of any fail\u00adure on the pastor\u2019s part but on the congregation\u2019s?\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Why I\u2019m Not a Lib\u00ader\u00adal Catholic<\/a> (Ross Douthat, New York Times): \u201cBut I just don\u2019t see how you can look at the mod\u00adern world, writ large, and its most devel\u00adoped precincts espe\u00adcial\u00adly \u2014 the world of sex edu\u00adca\u00adtion via ubiq\u00adui\u00adtous pornog\u00adra\u00adphy, fal\u00adter\u00ading mar\u00adriage rates, col\u00adlaps\u00ading birthrates, the alien\u00adation of the sex\u00ades from one anoth\u00ader, the ris\u00ading exis\u00adten\u00adtial angst attend\u00ading all these trends and the creep of euthana\u00adsia as a \u2018mer\u00adci\u00adful\u2019 solu\u00adtion \u2014 and say that clear\u00adly what the church needs to do at this<\/em> his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal moment is water down or just talk less about its teach\u00adings on sex and mar\u00adriage and fam\u00adi\u00adly, rather than find a way to reassert them or offer them anew.\u201d\n